PHP 8.5 on WordPress 6.9 without breaking your live site
A PHP 8.5 update took down a client’s WooCommerce store. Here is what beta support really means on WordPress 6.9, and how to test the upgrade on staging before it hits your live site.
Tag: APIs
Registering WordPress AI abilities with categories
Notes on registering custom WordPress AI abilities now that categories are required, with a CRM example and why categorizing keeps integrations manageable.
Managing access with WordPress custom capabilities
How to replace scattered current_user_can checks with real WordPress custom capabilities: register them, assign them to roles, and wrap the checks, with a CRM example.
How WordPress 6.9 fixes query cache bloat
Why heavily updated WordPress sites bloat their object cache, and how 6.9’s consistent cache keys for query groups fix it, with a WooCommerce case and sample code.
What the WordPress AI Abilities API means for 6.9
My honest read on the WordPress AI Abilities API coming in 6.9, and why I tell clients to build on the core API instead of bolting on a beta library that breaks every update.
Trim unused WordPress core blocks to speed up the admin
A client’s store had every core block loaded and a sluggish backend to show for it. Here is how we worked out which WordPress core blocks to unregister, and the snippet we used.
A safer way to do API key authentication in WordPress
A client’s whole API auth was a hardcoded key checked against a query parameter. Here is how I rebuild API key authentication in WordPress as a real security layer, using the REST authentication filter.
Custom block bindings for dynamic content in WordPress 6.9
A client wanted their marketing team to pick which custom product attribute shows on a page, from the editor. Custom block bindings in WordPress 6.9 make that possible, and here is the source registration I used.
Fixing Interactivity API conflicts in WordPress 6.9
How WordPress 6.9’s unique IDs stop Interactivity API directives from clashing on the same element, plus the data-wp-ignore deprecation and new TypeScript helper types.
Content that lands clients, not just other developers
A WordPress agency published solid dev tutorials and still landed no clients. The fix was not more SEO, it was writing content around what clients actually struggle with.